It’s alive! Alive! The latest version of our webcomic CMS fixes a few longstanding issues and adds a few small but helpful features. Like collecting bits of candy, the results add up to a sweet experience. Read on, if you dare

We’ve been polling the webcomics community for what features of the Grawlix CMS (or any system). While we knew some tools would outpace others, we didn’t expect ads to fall in dead last. Learn what makes the grade

Security is essential to any web app like ours. But for a while ours was a little too strong. For instance, there was the time I logged out of the CMS — and couldn’t get back in. Unlock the security story

Part theme, part instruction manual, Asterisk was designed (pun intended) to help webcomic artists make sense of HTML & CSS. You can control almost every aspect of the theme’s look-n-feel in CSS alone, and develop your own unique tones along the way. *

We want to help artists publish comics on the web. So we compiled our coding know-how into a handy book to help them master HTML and CSS. If you find code intimidating, this book’s for you. Fear no code

A great way to find new readers is to help them find you. That means Search Engine Optimization (SEO). But can search engines scan text locked into word balloons? No. Artists need to take an extra step. Optimize your thinking

Many readers want to know more than your characters and worldbuilding. They want to know about you. The best way to give them a peek into your work is to blog about it. Here are some tips to make blogging easy. A posts about posts — it’s meta

Sure, we use a code editor. And an image editor — backgrounds don’t make themselves. Over here are our note tools. Over there, our testing suite. It all adds up to a hefty tool belt. Here’s the software we use to create and manage the Grawlix CMS. Explore our dev kit

Lettering is an integral part of making comics, either web or print. But can it be more than words on a page? We talked to two artists about typography in webcomics to find out. Learn to deal with your type

More than making a site that looks good, artists designing a webcomic site must solve problems in communication. They have to quickly tell readers where they are, set the comic’s tone, show readers how to get around the site — and make sure it works well in a variety of browsers and screen sizes. Put first things first

We’d love to include every feature. But not everything makes the cut. Every detail in the Grawlix CMS must answer the big question: how does it help artists publish comics online? Oh the things people say

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a fancy way to say “send files somewhere.” It’s a necessary step in building a webcomic site. Learn how to send files over the web — as in, to create a public website. Transfer knowledge

Smartphones and tablets are among the most popular web-surfing tools today. That’s a problem for webcomic sites, which are often designed with large screens in mind. Ignoring small screens means ignoring potential readers. So what do we do about it? Keep an open mind

Today many high-resolution screens have pixels so small that people can’t see them individually. As pixels get smaller, so do the images they comprise. A 600-pixel-wide image that reads well on desktop screens will also fit comfortably in a handheld iPhone — and make readers squint. That’s a problem. Look sharp, load fast